It seems like ages since we have seen new product announcements, but here are a couple. Sources of mine say the RB2011L-IN should be available within the next couple of weeks…and I plan to get one!
RB2011L-IN
This guy looks like a strong replacement for the 750G. It is almost as powerful as the previous 750G model only with double the port density.
It also appears as if the gig and fast interfaces sit on their own set of switching ASICs.
I see this as a great closet/tower device.
I’m really looking forward to the SFP model. I’m less interested in the wireless unit as I feel like the 751 fits this really well.
Optional mount for RB2011s
SXT G-5HnD
With this guy they are tempting you with the possibility of 100+ Mb speed. I’d love to see someone in a relatively quiet environment do it!
What are you guys interested in?
The kids and I recently assembled the OWI ATR. It is basically a kit that assembles into a tank style grabber, forklift or rover. It has a corded remote and runs off of 3 AA batteries. Since this has a LOT of parts I broke the build out to about four days…the kiddos have a somewhat limited attention span ;). It was a decent introduction to motors and gears, but the kids had more fun playing with the tracks while I put the whole thing together…such is life hehehe.
I’ll post the video up later 🙂
What’s new in 5.14 (2012-Feb-22 12:04):
*) winbox – fixed problem when changing main winbox window size and some of the inner windows
become hidden;
*) backup – backup file creation failed if router identity name had / in it;
*) wireless – improved nv2 link stability to reduce control frame timeouts,
only AP requires update;
*) fixed rare configuration retention problems on RB1100AHx2;
*) certificate manager – fixed building certificate trust chain which caused
certificate validation problems for some programs (VPN, SSTP etc)
when downgrading from this version to older version please run
“/certificate reset-certificate-cache” to maintain correct trust chain;
What’s new in 5.13 (2012-Feb-14 08:18):
*) firewall – to-address can be specified as ip address with mask in addition to
ip range;
*) traffic-generator – fix crash on multicore systems;
*) smb – fixes and improvements;
*) sstp – added RC4 cipher support to fix interoperability issues
introduced in MS KB2585542 security update. from now on RC4 is the
preferred cipher and AES will be used only if peer does not advertise RC4;
*) dhcp client – revert DNS settings on dhcp client disable;
*) quickset – country & channel-width can now be specified;
*) quickset – added support for configuring pppoe client on wireless interface;
*) bridge – fixed problem where arp reply-only or disabled mode didn’t work and
disabled bridge interfaces didn’t have X flag;
*) webfig – fixed problem where none of table entries were shown if table filter
was left to ‘all’;
*) webfig – show login page if autologin fails;
*) user manager – don’t store backups in active store, always use path relative to /;
Nothing too earth shaking. Perhaps I’ll test my SMB throughput again.
If I have a standard ACL entry like this:
1 2 | access-list 98 deny 10.0.0.0 access-list 98 permit any |
and I apply it to an interface. What addressing does this block?
One might think that leaving off the wildcard mask would use the classful boundary(/8 or 0.255.255.255) of the addressing…but one would be wrong. In IOS if you leave off the wildcard mask a wildcard mask of 0.0.0.0 is assumed. This means the address is considered a host address(a single IP address). This means the first line equates to :
1 | access-list 98 deny 10.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 |
or
1 | access-list 98 deny host 10.0.0.0 |
It was once impossible to see which specific resources were being used where on your router. As of V5 we now have the profiler tool. It is basically Top for MTK.
Tool profiler
It is as simple as:
1 | rndc flush |